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In 2004, the Encyclopédie des Arts en Franche-Comté dedicated him a reference article : "Painter who does not fit into any fixed category, exploring the very depths of abstract art in order to bring to the surface the merest of the figurative. His painting, which seems to emerge from a kind of coloured skin, expresses all the warmth of ...
The commune of Pornichet was created in 1900 from parts of Saint-Nazaire and La Baule-Escoublac. [4] Situated on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the area that will become Pornichet developed in the middle of the 19th century with seaside tourism, as evidenced by its original villas, some of which have escaped the destruction caused by ...
ENSAAMA's ancestry can be traced back to the École des Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie, which in 1856 was the first professional women's school.This became merged with the schools of Germain Pilon and Bernad Palissy in 1925 and with the Cours Supérieur d'Esthétique Industrielle founded in 1958 by Jacques Viénot, occupying the site of the now École supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré ...
The purpose of CNAP was defined as support and promotion of artistic creation in different forms including photography, graphic arts, design and crafts. [2] The CNAP acquires and commissions works of art, and disseminates them, contributes to modern application of ancient crafts, and to application of new technologies and materials, supports visual artists and provides education to the public ...
Copperplate from Description des Arts et Métiers Copperplate from Description des Arts et Métiers. Descriptions des Arts et Métiers, faites ou approuvées par messieurs de l'Académie Royale des Sciences (French for "Descriptions of the Arts and Trades, made under the direction of the gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences"), is a collection of books on crafts that was published by the ...
The painting represents an imaginary scene of a contemporary scientific demonstration, based on real life, and depicts the eminent French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) delivering a clinical lecture and demonstration at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris (the room in which these demonstrations took place no longer exists at the Salpêtrière).
The first guide book to the region was published in 1845. [8] Among the sites that attracted visitors at the time were the tomb of Chateaubriand in Saint-Malo (who died in 1848), which became a literary pilgrimage site for his admirers and other artists, [9] and Pont-Aven, where the École de Pont-Aven attracted painters from 1865 onwards. [10]
The École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs played a major role in the development of the Art Deco design movement in the 1920s and in the creation of new design concepts. The School has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of animation , photography , scenography , industrial design , communication design ...